Now Available: IFLA Asia and Oceania Regional Quarterly News – February 2023 Issue
We are back with another issue of the IFLA Asia & Oceania Regional Newsletter (February 2023). Download the PDF to dive right into the articles.
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- 24 February 2023
Asia-Oceania Regional Division
Now Available: IFLA Asia and Oceania Regional Quarterly News – May 2022 Issue
We are proud to present the IFLA Asia & Oceania Regional Newsletter (May 2022). Download the PDF to dive right into the articles.
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- 07 June 2022
IFLA’s Participation in the Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD)
Dr Premila Gamage, Member of the Regional Division Committee for Asia-Oceania and Dr Basheerhamad Shadrach, Founder of Indian Public Library Movement and the South Asian Chapter of the INELI programme, represented IFLA and travelled to Bangkok in March 2022 to attend the 9th Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD).
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- 06 June 2022
A Coastal Paradise, Dawei Millennium Centre
A self-sustaining community library, Dawei Millennium Centre, was established in 2007 by five university graduates in the city of Dawei, the capital of Tanintharyi region, Myanmar. The library was founded in the region with the ultimate goal of transforming the community into a knowledgeable and digitally literate society.
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- 06 June 2022
Is Your Library & Information Science (LIS) School on the IFLA Map? Be Part of a Strong and Visible Network
Locating LIS schools worldwide is often challenging as there are no global databases currently in existence. The IFLA global database and map of LIS schools and programmes is an international collaborative project launched by the IFLA Building Strong Library and Information Science Education (IFLA-BSLISE) Working Group to address this gap. The global interactive database will be built using data gathered through an online questionnaire to be completed by LIS schools.
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- 06 June 2022
From Jawi to Rumi: The Preservation of Malay Manuscripts as a Cultural Heritage
The Manuskrip Melayu project began during Malaysia’s Movement Control Order (MCO) when libraries closed and librarians had to work from home.
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- 06 June 2022
Thailand Nursing Library Network & Thailand Nursing Research & Educational Resources Gateway
Established on 31 May 2021, the Thailand Nursing Library Network was based on the project ‘A study on Collaboration among Nursing Libraries in Thailand’ by Miss Surang Sirorojsakul,Librarian, Faculty of Nursing, Mahidol University and her team, with funding from the Faculty of Nursing, Mahidol University.
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- 06 June 2022
SDG Stories from Asia and Oceania
We are pleased to present SDG Stories from Asia and Oceania, a booklet which aims to showcase how libraries in the Asia-Oceania region are supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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- 06 June 2022
Message from the Regional Office for Asia and Oceania
We are proud to present the May 2022 issue of the IFLA Asia & Oceania Regional Newsletter, which features thoughtful articles from seven countries in the region.
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- 06 June 2022
Message from Chair of Regional Division Committee for Asia and Oceania
For us in the library sector, it is more important than ever to defend the values we believe in, and which underlie our work to defend freedom of access to information, equitable access for all sectors in society without discrimination, and freedom of expression among the other human rights agreed many decades ago by the international community.
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- 06 June 2022